Dirk Andriesz (d. 1569)

Dirk Andriesz (Dierick Andriessen), an Anabaptist martyr, was beheaded at Zierikzee, Dutch province of Zeeland, on 22 October 1569. He was a native of Oorschot in de Kempen, Belgium, and is said to have been a Mennonite. By trade he may have been an itinerant merchant or hawker, for his peddler's pack was publicly sold for two guilders and six pennies.

Braght, Thieleman J. van. The Bloody Theatre or Martyrs' Mirror of the Defenseless Christians Who Baptized Only upon Confession of Faith and Who Suffered and Died for the Testimony of Jesus Their Saviour . . . to the Year A.D. 1660. Scottdale, PA: Herald Press, 1951: 774. Available online at: http://www.homecomers.org/mirror/index.htm.